leonard henkle



110.415,108. Patented Nov. 12; 1889.

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.LEONARD HENKLE, OE ROOHESTER, ASSIGNOR rro CHARLES STANFORD vUPTON, OE NEw YORK, N. Y.

WICK-RAISER FOR LAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,108, dated November 12, 1889. l Application led August 22, 1889. Serial No. 321,592. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, LEONARD HENKLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, county of Monroe, and State of New York, have invented' certain new and useful Improvements in Wick-Baisers for Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

My presentinvention is an improvement on the wick-raiser for lamps shown in Letters Patent No. 398,725, dated February 26, 1889;

y and it consists in providing the operatingshaft with a disk or projection down the rod to its seat.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a central-draft lamp of the Rochester pattern, to which I have shown my invention applied. The hollow removable thimble is not shown. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a detail to a larger scale.

The bowl or fount 1 is shown provided with customary central-draft tube 2, which the wick 3 surrounds. Y r1 he outer wall of the wickchamber is made by the ring or cylinder 4, carried by the shell-or case 5 of the burner, which forms a chimney-support. is removably applied to the forint 1 by bayonet or similar joint.

6 is the wick-rod ordraw-bar, screw-threaded at its lower part to enter a correspondinglythreaded hole in an arm 7 of the Wick-ring 8,

for holding The latter which tightly clasps the wick. The tube 2 guides the wick and its ring in, their vertical motion. The upper end of the draw-bar 6 has bearing in the top of the fount. Near its top the rod 6 carries a toothed pinion 12,

gearing with a similar pinion 13 on the upper end of a shaft 14. Said shaft passes entirely through the fount and has cylindrical bearing therein, which prevents Contact of the shaft with the oilof the lamp. The top of the bearing projects above the joint at 15 to support the shaft and pinion 13 in proper position. At the lower end the shaft bears a hand-nut 15. vIn order to hold the draw bar or' rod 6 down, the shaft 14 has a disk or projection 1'7 iixed to its upper end,of greater diameter than pinion 18, so as to project over the pinion 12 on rod 6.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The combination of the lamp-fount, the wick-raising rod and shaft, both having bearing therein, and a disk or projection on said shaft'for holding down said rod, substan tially as set forth.

LEONARD HENKLE. lVitness'es:

F. B. HUToHINsON, M. R. BONESTEEL. 

